Meeting of the Public Health and

Veterinary Public Health Institutes of the G20

Veterinary Infection Prevention and Control

Donald A. Prater, DVM presentation reflects the views of the author and does not represent the position or policy of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Petra Gastmeier, MD

Guiding question 1

What kind of national guidelines for infection prevention should be available (addressing a certain species, a certain illness or certain setting, e.g. clinic, ambulatory practice, retirement home, stable, outbreak situation ….) and can their implementation be ensured?

1. To reduce occurrence of infections in order to save antibiotics (about 20 % of antibiotics in hospitals are used to treat HAI)

2. To stop transmission of MDRO

Why infection prevention and control (IPC) in health care to combat AMR?

Guidelines

human common veterinarian human

Guidelines common:

• General principles/core components: keep it out, detect it early, prevent transmission, stamp it out

• Algorithms: risk assessment, guidelines/best practice standards -> self assessment, risk communication

• Make it as simple as possible • A common language should be used

Guideline implementation

Implementaion Farmers Vet clinics

veterinarian human

• Farmers • Vet clinics

• Hospitals (professionals in the field of IPC)

• Long term care facilities

New WHO Guidelines on Core Components of IPC Programmes at the National and Acute Health Care Facility Level

http://www.who.int/gpsc/ipc-components/en/index.html To be launched during WAAW, on 15 November 2016

Courtesy B. Allegranzzi

Development of assessment forms

• Opportunity for learning - benchmarking

• Opportunity for cross-discipline team building

• Requires big time commitment

• Less costly

Self

• Efficient – less time drain on staff

• External expert lens to provide strategic & technical advice

• Higher cost External

Courtesy B. Allegranzzi

Guiding question 2

How can the application of guidelines for infection prevention be improved? What are the main obstacles in the different areas human/veterinary? Are there examples for success stories? What are obstacles?

Obstacles

human common veterinarian human

Obstacles common

• Economical constrains • Environment is a black box for both • Role of companion animals • Communication to the public is crucial

Obstacles

Implementaion Farmers Vet clinics

veterinarian human

• Lack of awareness • Poor education • Missing professionals in many

countries • Close contact of animals

(poultry)

• Human behavior

• Understaffing/overcrowding

• Missing leadership

• Imperfect facilities (single rooms)

• LTCF are difficult to handle

• POCT

What should be preferred?

Doing only if required by law/ regulations

Doing voluntary (Incentives?)

Further points

• We need more intervention studies to investigate what works

• Measuring outcomes and performance is important

• Transparency is crucial to avoid duplication of activities

Success stories

Implementaion Farmers Vet clinics

veterinarian human

• Decrease of antibiotic use (Germany/Netherlands) without impairing animals

• Ideal success story: decrease of MDRO, economic benefit for the farmer, improved image of the farmers

• Hand hygiene improvement campaigns

• Bundle approach

• National targets to decrease MDRO

Guiding question 3

What is the impact of vaccinations in reducing antibiotic resistance taking into account that the majority of the currently available vaccines is directed against viral pathogens?

Vaccination

Vaccine development is probable not a very relevant strategy in the human field today….

Thank you for attention !